- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 2011-12
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Action
- Director:
- Adam Reed
- Outstanding Performance(s):
- Aisha TYLER
- Premiss:
- At ISIS, an international spy agency, global crises are merely opportunities for its highly-trained employees to confuse, undermine, betray and royally screw each other.
- Theme(s):
- Alienation
- Destiny
- Emotional repression
- Grieving
- Guilt
- Loneliness
- Narcissism
- Personal change
- Political Correctness
- Self-expression
- Sexism
- Sexual Repression
- Solipsism
- Stereotyping
- White culture
- White guilt
- White supremacy
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- OSS: 117
- Review Format:
- DVD
World’s Greatest Secret Agent
Amusing-but-lazy spy spoof that understands the White supremacy and Sexism inherent in the genre being mocked, but fails - in its unsophisticated way - to offer anything in its place other than its own White supremacy and Sexism.
Rather than create fully three-dimensional characters, stereotypes are used to laugh at stereotypes - as if Whites have no other method of communication and no other understanding of the world. Comedies about comedy have a very difficult time being funny because they are not about anything outside of their own esthetic limitations - anything in the real world of lived experience.
Neither the characters nor the writers possess any sense of whom they are except in terms of others. Others they clearly have neither respect nor liking for; hence, the lack of any actual comic exploration of the White need for stereotyping. Much of the political confusion here comes from the vapidity of White culture and its resultant inability to compare and contrast itself with others - without which it is difficult to understand both oneself and others. Without such understanding, there is nothing to be humorous about; hence, the odd unreality of the comedy here.
Eventually the joke repetition starts to annoy rather than to amuse, once the end of the series has been reached, and the usual White obsessions with evading meaning, passion and purpose stakes its claim on your declining interest. Moreover, there is a curious pride in the ignorance and fear-of-life on display here in this parody that is nowhere near as insightful, nor as funny, as OSS: 117. More proof that Political Correctness has successfully killed the White ability to be funny.
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